Fantasy Quote by Amira Aly

Fear created gods; audacity created kings.

— Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon

“In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“Life...was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other...The dominant sign in that paradise…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“But the conquest of fear was what fascinated them. The continual ecstasy of vanquishing and the consciousness that no one could vanquish them was…

— Fydor Dostoyevsky

Fear first created the gods.

— George Santayana

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

— Anonymous

“Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of 'the Big Folk', as they call us, and now they avoid us with…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Fear first made gods in the world.

— Statius

Fear created the first gods in the world.

— Caecilius Statius

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. On all sides they…

— Winston Churchill

“The Fear of the Lord, that is the beginning of wisdom, and therefore belongs to the beginnings, and is felt in the first cold…

— G.K. Chesterton

“ Petronius was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to an unknown…

— J. M. Robertson